Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine," etc.
Childe Harold, Canto III.]
[551] St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins were still extant in 1816, and may be so yet, as much as ever.
[552] {421}["We left Ratzeburg at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening, and arrived at Lüneburg—i.e. 35 English miles—at 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. This is a fair specimen! In England I used to laugh at the 'flying waggons;' but compared with a German Post-Coach, the metaphor is perfectly justifiable, and for the future I shall never meet a flying waggon without thinking respectfully of its speed."—S.T. Coleridge, March 12, 1799, Letters of S.T.C., 1895, i. 278.]
[553] [See for German oaths, "Extracts from a Diary," January 12, 1821, Letters, 1901, v. 172.]
With "Schnapps"—Democritus would cease to smile,
By German, post-boys driven a mile.—[MS.]
With "Schnapps"—and spite of "Dam'em," "dog" and "log"
Launched at their heads jog-jog-jog-jog-jog-jog.—[MS. erased.]